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wound with lysol (3 percent.) or corrosive (1-1000) solution, arid 

 use sterile silk sutures, aseptic gauze and bandage. Apply splint to 

 leg, and tie the head up. If the wound suppurates, remove stitches, 

 apply wet dressing (3 per cent, lysol) , covered with oil silk or rubber, 

 for few days, and then Peruvian balsam, aseptic dressing and 

 bandage. If the sheath of extensor tendon is opened and tendon 

 exposed, or joint opened, place the animal in slings (with splints 

 on leg) and keep on the wound a compress of aseptic gauze wet 

 with antiseptic solution, as above, until swelling and acute inflam- 

 mation subside. Then irrigate with lysol solution daily and apply 

 dry aseptic gauze and Peruvian balsam, 511 ; carbolic acid and 

 glycerin (1-16) or other antiseptic and stimulant, dry gauze and 

 bandage. See Open Joints. Treatment is unavailing if the tendon 

 is much lacerated, the bones of the knee fractured or joint opened 

 — except in the case of invasion of the carpo-metacarpal articula- 

 tion alone. 



Beokkn Wind, ok Heaves in Horses. 



Avoid water before hard or fast work ; give water in moderation 

 between meals ; give mashes of bran and oats with carron oil, 156, 

 570 ; also small anaount of moistened hay. Arsenic for long periods 

 226 ; iron, 201 ; and nux vomica in anemia and anorexia, 408. 

 If heart at fault, give tine, of digitalis and strophanthus, 3 drams 

 each, thrice daily. If bronchitis is a cause, see treatment under 

 that disease. If there is true asthma, give spirit of chloroform, | ij 

 in § ii of whiskey, and remedies advised for asthma in dogs. 



Bronchitis, Acute and Cheonio. 



In acute, to shorten attack give full dose of Dover's powder, 475 ; 

 also apply hot blanket and rubber sheet and dry blanket to chest, 

 frequently changed ; rub mustard paste on legs and bandage. Give 

 bran mash, roots or grass and pint of linseed oil or enema ; furnish 

 a weU- ventilated box stall. If there is fever, aconite, 463 ; spirit of 

 nitrous ether, 313 ; and potassium citrate, 127 ; mixed in a drench, 

 thrice daily. Employ inhalations of sodium bicarbonate ( 3 ss to 

 Oi) to increase secretion ; later, inhalations of oil. of turpentine ( 3 ss 

 to Oi) to lessen secretion. In dogs with dyspnea, give tablespoonful 

 of syrup of ipecac to produce emesis ; also, to increase secretion, 

 ipecac, 475 ; with syrup of squill, 458 ; or ammonium chloride or 

 carbonate, 149 ; in chloroform water. With excessive secretion, 

 prescribe internally oil of turpentine, 503 ; or terpin hydrate or 

 terebin, 500 ; or belladonna, 385 ; with tincture of nux vomica, 490. 

 If cough is constant and wearing, administer chloral hydrate, 318 ; 

 or codeine, 366 ; or heroin, 357 ; or paregoric, 379. In the horse, 

 instead of expectorants, use mustard, or stimulating liniments 

 and Priessnitz poultice, 708, to chest and throat, and inhalations; 

 if cough is persistent, potassium iodide, 249. 



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